All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
Samuel JohnsonThere is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
Samuel JohnsonI have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Samuel Johnson